MRS. McCORMICK ILL
"WORLD'S RICHEST WOMAN" WHO LOST MILLIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McGcrmick is ill with cancer, and her recovery is doubtful. unce known as the world's richest woman, she lost between six and eigne million pounds in Chicago real estate am! investment speculations in the last three years. Recently she was obliged to borrow £IOO,OOO against her estate. She closed her mansion temporarily, and now lies ill in a small suite in the Brake Hotel. Her brother, Mr. Jchn Rockefeller, junr., I his week paid her his first visit for many years, and her daughter, Muriel, who became estranged from tier when she divorced Harold McCormick 11 years ago, i s at her bedside.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 August 1932, Page 5
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